How much do movers cost in Roseville?
A local move in Roseville is charged by the hour with the truck inside the rate, on a minimum of three hours of work plus one hour of travel. The rate is the same as anywhere else we work — Placer County is not a surcharge — and what actually changes your total is the drive time, which California requires to be billed twice on every hourly local move, whatever the distance.
Not taking bookings yet — our California mover permit is with the state regulator. The rates and the way we work are below; ask anything and we will answer.
A price in about a minute, or a written answer the same day.
Photo: The Vernon Street arch, downtown Roseville by Noah Loverbear, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Roseville is three moving jobs in one city. The old downtown near Vernon Street is narrow and older. East Roseville is post-war suburbia. The west and north sides are the 1985–2000 boom that turned a railway town into a city of nearly 150,000: wide streets, big tract houses, easy loading. Which one you live in decides the hours more than the number of bedrooms does.
| Home size | Crew | Typical total |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | 2 · $129/hr | from $516 |
| 1 bedroom | 2 · $129/hr | from $516 |
| 2 bedrooms | 2 · $129/hr | from $710 |
| 3 bedrooms | 3 · $179/hr | from $1253 |
Truck included · minimum 3 hours of labour plus 1 hour of travel, so $516 with two movers · a longer drive bills the doubled time instead, as the state tariff requires
What moves the hours here
Downtown streets are tighter than the rest
Around Vernon Street the kerb space is short and a twenty-six-foot truck sometimes has to stand further away. That walk is billed as hours, not as a long-carry fee.
The newer west and north load fastest
Wide roads, level drives, attached garages. On an hourly job easy access is a genuine saving — not because the rate drops, but because the job takes fewer hours.
Into Sacramento is about twenty miles, doubled
Every minute of that drive is billed twice under Item 36 of Maximum Rate Tariff 4. On a Roseville-to-midtown day it is a visible line, and it belongs on the estimate before you book.
Double drive time, and why it is on your bill
Maximum Rate Tariff 4, Item 36: an hourly local move bills loading, unloading and double the driving time between your two addresses. The tariff sets no distance threshold, so it applies however short the drive. It is the state tariff rather than a company surcharge, and the line is on your estimate before you book.
Questions people ask
Do you charge more in Placer County?
No. The hourly rate is identical. Only the drive time changes with distance, and doubling it is a California rule that applies to every mover in the state.
How much is a two-bedroom move from Roseville to Sacramento?
It depends on the access at both ends and on the load, which is why we write an estimate rather than publish a flat figure. The pricing page shows the hourly rates and the minimum so you can sanity-check any quote, ours included.
Can you do it at short notice?
Often. We are small, so you get a straight answer about the date instead of a slot that turns out not to exist.